Originally posted by schi0249@Wed, 2005-02-09 @ 04:28 PM
Yeah; more broken things fixed. How much more do you think they broke, while fixing?
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If you think they suck so much then write your own OS and we'll see how many bugs will that have.
Linux has the problem of NOT being user friendly
Actually, coming from DOS and Windows 3.x, I find every edition of Windows to be a bigger PITA. Some of the things they've automated, I didn't want automated. Now its more of a bitch to remember how to change things myself.
But at least there's a standard GUI, a standard way of doing things
But the next Windows, now that one I'm not sure about at all.
When building something from the ground up that is to be used on a generalized system like the PC (it being a very NON proprietary system in comparison to say Mac) and attempting to be user friendly has to bundle a lot into the OS.
Linux is very bare bone... less parts less bugs.
An OS that does everything that Windows does at the price it is offered at is rather forgiveable for its bugs in my eyes. Take for instance, Suse costs almost as much as XP (I have seen it sold for 129 USD at best buy)... Suse doesn't do everything right out of the boxx that XP does.
I have no use for the thing, so have no urge to actually use it.
never had a virus
I was more referring to the fact that there are different distros and ways of doing things out there. Everything can be different. Windows users just pop in the CD, and everything is taken care of for them. Is that always good? No, but that's the way it is. Maybe the Lindows guys have it right with the CNR warehouse, but I really hate the way it works (other than its ease of use). If you had one particular way of doing things win out, and become the de facto standard, people could adapt and stick with that. But do you want that?Originally posted by ExCyber@Thu, 2005-02-10 @ 03:45 PM
As there is in, say, GNOME. A Linux system is what distributors make it, and not all distros promote the uber-configuration fetishism that is often ascribed to "Linux"; I appreciate this now more than ever after recently moving from Gentoo to Ubuntu.